A study of the online content viewing behaviour of Indonesian consumers has found a massive 55 per cent reduction in consumers accessing piracy websites over the past ten months. The survey, commissioned by the Asia Video Industry Association’s Coalition Against Piracy (CAP) and conducted by YouGov, found that 28 per cent of online consumers currently […]
Research from telecoms analyst firm Omnisperience and digital bill communications and analytics specialist Soft-ex has found that 84 per cent of communications service providers (CSPs) are planning to invest in more effective customer communications in the next 24 months. Throughout the Covid-19 crisis, CSPs played a vital role in keeping both enterprises and households connected, […]
The media industry suffered 17 billion credential stuffing attacks – the automated injection of breached username/password pairs in order to fraudulently gain access to user accounts – between January 2018 and December 2019 according to a new report from intelligent edge platform specialist Akamai. The Akamai 2020 State of the Internet / Credential Stuffing in […]
A desire to keep a closer eye on what is happening around their homes as consumers shelter-in-place will help the smart home market weather the global Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, according to research published in the latest versions of Strategy Analytics’ Global Smart Home Device Forecast. Strategy Analytics forecasts global consumer spending in 2020 on […]
Effectv, the advertising sales division of Comcast Cable, and TV attribution specialist TVSquared have analysed how TV has impacted advertisers’ ability to drive digital engagement in a time of restricted movement for most Americans. The pair’s study, The Halo Effect: TV Drives Digital, covering
Research conducted by Freeview shows that family TV time is back, with British broods now watching 18 hours of TV together every week – four hours more than before the lockdown. In fact, more than half (57 per cent) of Brits said watching TV as a family during lockdown had been a bonding experience, bringing […]
It is a time of great uncertainty for the theatrical industry. Before Covid-19 cautions led to closures of theatres across the globe in March, the Domestic Box Office (DBO) was poised for a healthy year, up 6.9 per cent over 2019 through February. Powerhouse titles such
Piracy cost the Italian economy €1.1 billion last year, according to an Ipsos study for the Italian Federation for the Protection of Audiovisual Content (FAPAV). The negative impact on GDP was almost €500 million, the
Consumers spend more than £2 billion (€2.23bn) globally to cover the electricity needed to watch Netflix for an average of two hours per day according to research from comparison and switching service Uswitch.com. The research took global costs per KWh and average television energy consumption to calculate the total cost of energy used to watch […]
The total pay-TV services revenue in Australia is set to decline at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.2 per cent from $2.6 billion in 2019 to $2.2 billion in 2024 due to the declining cable and DTH TV subscriptions and falling pay-TV average revenue per user (ARPU), according to GlobalData, a data and […]